tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:37:14 +0000510 ReadingsJen MichalskiMichael KimballBrian Evenson510Amber SparksAndy DevineBlake ButlerLaura van den BergMatt BellPaula BomerA.E. PetersonAndy FitchAryn KyleCarolyn ParkhurstDarcelle BleauJames MagruderJanice ShapiroJenny HollowellJessica Anya BlauJoanna HowardJon CotnerJustin KramonJustin SiroisKate WyerKathleen RooneyKim CalderKyle MinorLaura Ellen ScottMeghan KennyMikita BrottmanPat KingRahne AlexanderRon TannerScott McClanahanShane JonesTara LaskowskiUnsaidAaron CohickAdam RobinsonAllson LivingstonAlphonso LingisAubrey HirschBaltimore Book FestivalBarrett WarnerBen LooryBill BlackCarissa HalstonCaryn CoyleChad WillenborgChristian BaumanChristine GrilloChristine LincolnClarinda HarrisCurtis SmithD.R. BelzDanielle ArianoDanuta HincDavid McLendonDawn RaffelDeb Olin UnferthDeb Olin-UnferthDeborah RudacilleDonald BreckenridgeDylan LandisElisabeth DahlElise LevineElissa SchappellElliott HoltEmily MitchellEric D. GoodmanFive:Ten ReadingsGeoff BeckerGeoffrey BeckerGeoffrey GreifGreg OlearHeather RoundsIsaac James BakerIvy GoodmanJ. R. AngelellaJackie WangJaimy GordonJame Gaughran-PerezJane DeluryJane SatterfieldJanice EidusJason TinneyJeffrey CondranJen GrowJoanna LuloffJoanna Smith RakoffJohanna RodgersJohn BarryJohn BrandonJohn RowellJoseph RiippiJoseph YoungJosh WeilJoshua FurstJoshua MohrJulian BerengautJulie Wakeman-LinnKaren LillisKarl Taro GreenfeldKelcey ParkerKen SparlingKevin SampsellLauren BenderLeni ZumasLeslie F. MillerLia PurpuraMarie-Helene BertinoMarion WinikMark CuginiMatt NormanMegan BoyleMegan McSheaMelissa Wyse-McCaulMichael LandweberMichael PollockMike YoungMolly GaudryNancy MurrayNewLights PressNik KorponNoel SlobodaNoy HollandPatricia SchultheisPaul MaliszewskiPeter GrandboiPublishing GeniusRachel DemmaRachel Louise SnyderRachel ShermanRafael AlvarezRic RoyerRichard PeabodyRobb ToddRobert KlossRobert LopezRobin BlackRoy KeseyRupert WondolowskiS.L. PriceSam LigonSam LipysteSam MichelSandra BeasleySara LippmanSarah Rose EtterSheri BookerSherrie FlickShya ScanlonSimon FruelandStephanie BarberSteve HimmerSusan McCallum-SmithSusi WyssThaddeus RutkowskiTim WendelTimmy ReedTimothy GagerTomas GlaveTwitterUnderrated AnimalsThe 5ive:ten Readingsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-2593766298171028111Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:07:00 +00002014-02-18T19:07:56.499-05:00So long, it's been good to know you...<i>...but we must be moving along.</i><br />
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Saturday, February 15th, marked our last 510 Reading. Thanks to Minas Gallery, authors from everywheres, and the great people of Baltimore for supporting us these past seven years. (And if you're still looking to check out a dedicated fiction series in Baltimore, come visit Jen Michalski's new series, <a href=" Here! at Artifact Coffee (an Ivy Bookshop Series)</a>.<br />
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Love, the 510 Readings2014/02/so-long-its-been-good-to-know-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)74tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-4491755970671186854Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:10:00 +00002014-02-04T16:10:51.054-05:00Emily MitchellJeffrey CondranPeter GrandboiRachel Louise SnyderFebruary 15th Readings (Finale): Rachel Louise Snyder, Jeffrey Condran, Peter Grandbois, and Emily MitchellIt is great sadness that we announce the last 510 Readings. For a series that promised to bring you quality fiction "for the rest of your life," we've have a great 7-year run. We thank Peggy and Minas Konsolas and the use of Minas Gallery (closing in February) for their support of the series and generous gift of space. We thank readers from all over the country (and some from all over the world) for gracing our podium, and for all of you who came out to support them. We couldn't have done it without you. Love, Jen.<br />
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This very special 510 will be hosted by Elise Levine (although I will be in attendance, I swear!) I hope you will come out for a very special sendoff.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><b>Rachel Louise Snyder</b> is the author of the novel <i>What We've Lost is Nothing</i> (January 2014, Scribner), and has been named an "important new voice" in fiction by the <i>Library Journal</i>. She has been a journalist for the past eighteen years, covering stories of struggle and survival for the <i>New Yorker, the New Republic, Slate, Salon</i>, and the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>. Snyder has also been a regular voice on public radio, contributing to This American Life, Marketplace, and All Things Considered, among others. She hosted the radio shows Latitudes and the Global Guru. Her first book, <i>Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade</i> (W. W. Norton), was featured on more than twenty-five local and national public radio shows, including This American Life (for which she won an Overseas Press Award). She received an MFA in fiction from Emerson College. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at American University.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><b>Jeffrey Condran</b> is the author of the story collection <i>A Fingerprint Repeated</i> (Press 53). His debut novel, <i>Prague Summer</i>, will be published by Counterpoint in August 2014. His fiction has appeared in journals such as <i>The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review</i>, and <i>Epoch</i> and has been awarded the 2010 William Peden Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Co-founder of Braddock Avenue Books.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><b>Peter Grandbois</b> is the author of the novel <i>The Gravedigger</i>, selected by Barnes and Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” program and Booklist as one of the best books of 2006, as well as The <i>Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir</i>, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, the novel, <i>Nahoonkara</i>, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards for 2011, and a collection of surreal flash fictions, <i>Domestic Disturbances</i> (Subito Press, 2013) chosen by <i>Publisher’s Weekly</i> as one of the best books of the year. His essays, plays, and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and <i>Best American Essays</i>. He is an associate editor at <i>Boulevard magazine</i> and teaches at Denison University in Ohio.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><b>Emily Mitchell's</b> first novel, <i>The Last Summer of the World</i> (W. W. Norton), was a finalist for the 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her short fiction has appeared in <i>Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly</i>, and <i>New England Review</i>, among other magazines. Her first collection of short stories is forthcoming in Spring 2015. She teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland.2014/02/february-15th-readings-finale-rachel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-3528119080202509606Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:51:00 +00002013-12-04T17:51:08.570-05:00Clarinda HarrisD.R. BelzEric D. GoodmanRafael AlvarezJanuary 25, 2014 Readings: Rafael Alvarez, Clarinda Harris, David Belz, and Eric D. GoodmanMany happy returns for 2014! We are taking the month of December off but will return in January, starting the new year with some of Baltimore's favorite sons (and daughters): <b>Rafael Alvarez, Clarinda Harris, David Belz,</b> and <b>Eric D. Goodman</b>. See you there!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><b>Melissa Wyse McCaul’s</b> work has appeared most recently in such publications as <i>Shenandoah, Urbanite</i>, and <i>decomP</i>. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony last fall and received her MFA from American University. A selection of her short fiction was awarded the Myra Sklarew Award. She is currently completing a collection of short stories set in World War II Hawaii. 2013/11/november-16th-readings-michael.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-6647146861989229869Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:54:00 +00002013-12-04T17:56:30.749-05:00Danielle ArianoDanuta HincKelcey ParkerSheri BookerOctober 19 Readings: Sheri Booker, Danielle Ariano, Kelcey Parker, Danuta Hinc, and Marion Winik<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div>Danielle Ariano received her MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Getting Over the Rainbow, her debut book that recounts her humorous experiences as a lesbian, from her initial, uncertain utterance of the terrifying phrase “I’m gay,” all the way to her more recent declaration of “I do.” Her work has appeared on various online publications including Baltimore Fishbowl and Huffington Post and in literary journals such as the light ekphrastic, Cobalt Review, Welter and Rufous City Review. She is a frequent contributor to Baltimore Gay Life, where starting in January, she will have a monthly column chronicling her quirky experiences as a married gay woman. Her website is www.daniwrites.org. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div>Danuta Hinc () holds an M.A. in Philology from the University of Gdansk. She completed three years of postgraduate studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the direction of distinguished Professor Dr. Maria Janion. She is a Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches Professional Writing.Hinc is the author of To Kill the Other, (Tate Publishing 2011) the fictionalized life story of one of the 9/11 hijackers. Hinc has published short fiction and essays in the Little Patuxent Review, The Muse, Litteraria, Word Riot Inc., and numerous features in the newsletter of the Polish Library in Washington, D.C. She is currently working on a fictionalized memoir, Angels in the Forest, which is based on the life of her grandfather, Józef Król (Joseph King) and World War II. She is also working on a collection of short stories based on people and events in her family and the history of 20th century Europe, titled, Europe Without a Name. Hinc lives in Ellicott City, Maryland. <br />
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<b>Simon Fruelund</b> is the author of five books, among them <i>Mælk</i> (1997) and <i>Panamericana</i> (2012). His work has been translated into Italian, Swedish, and English from the original Danish, and his short stories have appeared in a number of magazines across the U.S, including <i>World Literature Today</i>, <i>Redivider</i>, and <i>Absinthe</i>.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><br />
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<b>Jen Michalski</b>’s debut novel <i>The Tide King</i> is available from Black Lawrence Press. She is the author of two collections of fiction, <i>Close Encounters</i> and <i>From Here</i> and a collection of novellas, <i>Could You Be With Her Now</i>. In 2013 she was voted one of "50 Women to Watch" by the Baltimore Sun and "Best Writer" by <i>Baltimore Magazine</i>. She also is the editor of the anthology <i>City Sages: Baltimore</i>, which won a 2010 “Best of Baltimore” award from <i>Baltimore Magazine</i>. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly <i>jmww</i> and a co-host of the monthly reading series The 510 Readings in Baltimore.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The 510 Readings are taking its yearly pilgrimage downtown on April 13th as part of the <b>CityLit Festival </b>at the Central Branch of Enoch Pratt Library. Headlined this year by <b>George Saunders</b>, the festival is in its 10th year (and we are in our fifth in partnership). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The 510 Readings will held in the <b style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; font-size: small; line-height: 14px;">FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT (2ND FLOOR), </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;">11:30-12:30 510 AT THE FESTIVAL (FICTION). </span>We will be hosting readers</span> <b>Andrew Keating, Nathan Leslie, C. L. Bledsoe, </b>and <b>Rob Roensch. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reader bios and listings of other events can be found in the CityLit Festival brochure and complete schedule, downloadable <a href="; target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">See you then!</span><br />
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<br />2013/04/april-13th-readings-city-lit-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-7468366995588275209Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:19:00 +00002013-02-26T12:09:33.651-05:00510510 ReadingsElliott HoltLaura van den BergMarie-Helene BertinoMeghan KennyScott McClanahanSeason 6, Episode 2: March 16Last month Joe Young killed it in his guest-hosting duties, so we're doing it again in March. Your guest host will be the wonderful Laura van den Berg and she will be introducing Elliott Holt, Marie-Helene Bertino, Meghan Kenny, and Scott McClanahan.<br /><br /><br />
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Elliott Holt's short fiction has appeared in The Pushcart Prize XXXV (2011 anthology) among other places. Her debut novel <i>You Are One of Them</i> will be published by The Penguin Press in May. [Photo credit Rebecca Zeller]<br /><br /><br />
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Marie-Helene Bertino's debut collection of short stories SAFE AS HOUSES received The 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was long-listed for The Story Prize. She received The Pushcart Prize in 2007 and a Special Mention in 2011. She has taught for The Gotham Writer's Workshop and One Story's Emerging Writer's Workshop and was an Emerging Writer Fellow at NYC's Center for Fiction. She hails from Philly and lives in Brooklyn. Currently, she is a biographer for people living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). For more information, visit www.mariehelenebertino.com, or follow her @mhbertino.<br /><br /><br />
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Scott McClanahan is the writer of Stories V! and the Collected Works of Scott McClanahan, Vol. 1. Two Dollar Radio is putting out Crapalachia in 2013. Tyrant Books is putting out Hill William in 2013.<br /><br /><br />
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Meghan Kenny received her MFA from Boise State University and her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Pleiades, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review and elsewhere. She won the 2005 Iowa Review Award, held the 2008-2009 Tickner Writing Fellowship at The Gilman School, was a fiction scholar at Bread Loaf in 2010, and recently won second place in Glimmer Train’s Fall Fiction Open. She teaches English at Gerstell Academy and fiction writing for Gotham Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Baltimore and is working on a novel.<br /><br />
2013/02/season-6-episode-2-march-16.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael Kimball)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905868477214821544.post-1194360777223187420Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:40:00 +00002013-01-13T15:49:43.503-05:00Jen MichalskiJoseph YoungJustin SiroisRoy KeseyTara LaskowskiFebruary 16, 2013 Readings<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></span>Welcome to the 2013 season of the 510 Readings! This is our sixth year hosting the series in Baltimore, and we're excited to bring you another season of local, regional, national, and global writers. We're starting this season with a quartet of regional awesomeness: <b>Roy Kesey</b>, series cohost <b>Jen Michalski</b>, <b>Justin Sirois</b>, and <b>Tara Laskowski</b>. We hope you can stop by and welcome in the new year with this amazing group of writers. Hosted by special guest, writer <b>Joseph Young</b>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Roy Kesey's </b>latest book is a short story collection called <i>Any Deadly Thing</i>, published by Dzanc Books in February 2013. His other books include a novel called <i>Pacazo</i> (the January 2011 selection for The Rumpus Book Club, and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award), a collection of short stories called <i>All Over</i> (a finalist for the <i>Foreword Magazine</i> Book of the Year Award, and one of <i>The L Magazine's</i> Best Books of the Decade), a novella called <i>Nothing in the World</i> (winner of the Bullfight Media Little Book Award), and two historical guidebooks. His short stories, essays, translations and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and anthologies, including <i>Best American Short Stories, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology</i> and <i>New Sudden Fiction</i>. He has won two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, the </span><span style="color: black;">Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction, </span><span style="color: black;">and a 2010 prose fellowship from the NEA. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Jen Michalski </b>is author </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">novel </span><i><span class="il">The</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">Tide</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">King</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i><span style="background: white;">(Black Lawrence Press, 2013), winner of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">2012 Big Moose Prize, </span><span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">short story collections <i>From Here</i> and <i>Close Encounters</i>, </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">novella collection<b> </b><i>Could You Be With Her Now</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Dzanc 2013). </span>She is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>founding editor of<span class="il">the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>literary quarterly <a href="; target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">jmww</span></a>, a co-host of <a href="" target="_blank&q